Duke's Baby Deal (MM Mpreg Shifter Romance) (Mercy Hills Pack Book 3) by Ann-Katrin Byrde

Author:Ann-Katrin Byrde [Byrde, Ann-Katrin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: shifter, paranormal, werewolf, mpreg, baby, dystopian, urban fantasy, birth, romance, gay, lgbt
Published: 2016-10-13T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTY

Just after New Year’s, we left the enclave, right after curfew lifted in the morning. Our tabs gleamed greasily on the collars of our jackets, a bag of dry nausea-proof food sat on the seat beside me, and my nerves jumped like grasshoppers in spring. Anxiety or excitement, who the heck knew? It took five hours to drive to the city where the clinic was, but it seemed like forever.

Duke sat in the front seat while Abel drove, and they chatted casually while I pressed my nose against the glass. I’d never been outside the enclave walls in my life. The guards at the gate scared me and I tried to hide behind Duke, which only made them worse. One of them made me open up my jacket to prove I was pregnant, then he got this look on his face like he’d eaten rotten meat, and turned away from us with a snarl. Duke put an arm around me and pointedly asked, “Can he get back in the van? He shouldn’t be on his feet.”

The other guard nodded casually and wrote something on our papers, then handed them back to Abel. “I’ll leave a note that your pass is open-ended,” he said quietly. Abel nodded his thanks, and we all got back in the van.

This time, Duke got in the back with me. “You okay?” he asked.

I nodded and forced a smile on my face. “What a bunch of creeps!”

Duke gave me an understanding look, like he saw through my bravado, then returned my smile. “Some of them aren’t bad, but every once in a while you get a guy there and you wonder why on earth he applied for the job.”

I snorted, cheered by his comment, and turned back to the window.

The city was huge! Like, the small buildings were bigger than the main one in Mercy Hills. And Duke, darling Duke, he answered every single one of my questions as Abel drove us through the streets. I made him promise to take me for a hamburger at a fast food place, and ice cream somewhere else. Placidly, like he always did, he agreed to everything, but always with an “if nothing happens to change our plans” attached. I couldn’t imagine what could change our plans—I mean, we had all day. And besides, I wasn’t going to let anything spoil my first trip out into the human world. Not even my stupid morning sickness.

I really hoped the doctor could give me something for it so I could eat normally. It was embarrassing—who ever heard of a shifter that couldn’t eat meat? Or be around it cooking? How ridiculous was that? But that’s what it was. Even eggs were dicey and too much butter on toast was enough to send me racing to the bathroom. But maybe the doctor could fix that.

Which reminded me. I chugged the last of the water I was supposed to drink before arriving, and squirmed a little as my bladder let me know it was getting near full capacity.

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